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Description: | Ms letters, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers relating to his service as a Midshipman in HMS ALBION during the Dardanelles campaign, 1914 - 1916, his letters containing details of his involvement in the attempt to force the Narrows (18 March 1915) and his experiences on the beachhead at Anzac and as Assistant King's Harbour Master at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and including comments on the difficulties of bombarding shore forts from the sea; his diaries consist of short entries extracted from his midshipman's log and relate to HMS ALBION's activities, with a preface consisting of his memoirs of Suvla (11 - 12 September 1915); together with miscellaneous papers including an ms letter from Lieutenant Commander J D Campbell to Mrs Berridge (February 1916), photographs of the Dardanelles, Mudros, Salonika, Malta, Gibraltar, Rosyth, Whale Island and Invergordon, a photograph of Lieutenant Commander Campbell and the midshipmen of HMS ALBION, and a photo of the King's Harbour Master's Picket Boat, Suvla Bay.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Berridge, W L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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